Category: Open Match

Rolfslake Wednesday Open 25th March 2015

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A chilly day down the lake.

After a few days of mild weather it was disappointing to see it get much colder in todays midweek open. It was decided to not peg the two current form pegs 18 and 22 giving hopefully the pegs a rest and hopefully move the fish up through the big lake.

As the match started there were literally 100’s of carp cruising around on the top eating the blossom that was falling of the bushes on the carpark bank but at least you  could see your target for a change.

The story of the match with a top carp weight and a top silver weight it gave the anglers a choice of what they wanted to target and the top weight of silvers today went to Pat Pritchard on peg 8. Pat tells me that had he had more than a half pint of casters he could of pushed his weight to over 40lb as when he ran out and fished maggots the roach got much smaller in size , but he still managed a nice mixed bag of chub, bream, perch and roach for his weight of 26-14.

Winning the carp match was Graham Ridgely on peg 24 on the car park bank and Graham fished the bomb both down the edge and towards peg 22 where there were stacks of cruising carp and many more down below to catch his 8 carp to double figures for his weight of 74-09 {well done Graham }.

A few photos from today’s match.

Carp section winner Graham Ridgely.

Top silver fish weight . Pat Pritchard 26-14.

Dave Whiteman

Andy with 19-12 of silvers as well.

Andy Johnstone with a carp of 15-14.

Results.

7 fished

 Place  Angler Peg  Weight
 1st  Graham Ridgely  24  74-09  Rolfslake
 2nd  Dave Whiteman  26  50-12  Hydro 2000
 3rd  Andy Johnstone  32  43-02  Garbolino / Tricast
 4th  John Bennett  16  40-12  Rolfslake
 5th  Pat Pritchard  8  26-14 {silvers}  Rolfslake
 6th  Eddie Taylor-Green  13  13-02  Rolfslake
 7th  Dai Thomas  9  11-02  Rolfslake

John continues with his early season lead

Score stands at

John 4

Eddie 0

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

 

Rolfslake Sunday Open 22nd March 2015

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The Carp start to show in todays match.

Today saw a much improved attendance with 23 eager anglers hoping that the Rolfslake carp would start to make an appearance. The good thing today was that the anglers were going to be properly spread around both the big and small lake and that in turn would start to move the fish about and hopfully away from the flyer pegs 18 and 22 which had show great consistency these last 8 weeks.

Alas today was no different as on a sunny and warm day but with a cool breeze all it did was to bring the previously dormant carp back to life but only to torment the anglers and sunbathe all around the lake.

Todays winner was Kev Simpson who had drawn form peg 18 on the motorway bank and Kev had an enjoyable day no doubt catching and losing a few but caught carp to double figures in his final weight of 145-01 {well done Kev}. In second place and having a good view of Kev was lake regular Derek Hammond on opposite peg 22 and Derek also had fish to double figures in his weight of 100-03.

Results

23 fished

 Place  Angler Peg  Weight
1st Kev Simpson 18 145-01 State Tackle
2nd Derek Hammond 22 100-03 Banbury Gunsmiths and Tackle
3rd Brian Rimmer 26 87-07 Rolfslake
4th Andy Johnstone 14 66-04 Garbolino/ Tricast
5th Andy Quarmby 32 65-12 Middy
6th Dai Thomas 17 52-08 Rolfslake
7th Ryan Seymore 25 49-12 Rolfslake
8th John Bennett 2 48-12 Rolfslake
9th Anthony Flint 36 48-04 Rolfslake
10th John Draper 13 44-15 Rolfslake
11th Geoff Edwards 31 44-01 Colmic
12th Mick Lane 7 39-07 Rolfslake
13th Steve Statye 23 35-04 Rolfslake
14th Ade Williams 34 29-00 Rolfslake
15th Pat Pritchard 5 25-04 Rolfslake

As is always the case prior to the forthcoming Easter festival the carp have started to wake up and I expect to see the weight really move on in the next week or so as we are now starting to get some settled weather so get down if you fancy catching a big carp or ton plus weight now should be the time for that.

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie

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